Javier Reyes

overall score goes to Reyes

Reyes is a good striker who the analyst expects to use his height and reach advantage to control range with an active lead leg and a long, doubled-up jab, adding good flurries up and down and solid volume. His lean-back defense is a real liability, though, and he has been caught before while backing up. His grappling is also good, with a strong bodylock takedown, but he sometimes reaches for takedowns carelessly, which the analyst flags as another spot where he has gotten into trouble. He otherwise scrambles well, attacks submissions, and brings heavy volume in top position, and the pick favors him mainly on the strength of his range and output.

States repeatedly that Reyes should win the rounds, but closes by granting Andrade a genuine 'chance' to finish the fight outright - an unrebutted finish risk that demotes the grade per the confidence-bar rule.

A good, very active striker who throws heavy volume with good flurries up and down, an active lead leg, and a long jab he can double up. Tends to back up behind a lean-back defense, which works against single shots but leaves him catchable against combinations. Good grappling overall - good bodylock takedown (though he reaches for it, exposing himself), good scrambles, strong ground-and-pound volume, attacks submissions well, and has the cardio to sustain output for three rounds even at elevation.